Abstract
THE GROWTH RATE of the voluntary hospital planning movement in the United States has been described as a significant medical-sociological development of the present decade. Great acceleration in the numbers of planning agencies occurred after establishment of the research grant program authorized by the Community Health Services and Facilities Act of 1961, which subsequently became a section of the Hill-Burton Act titled, Studies and Demonstrations Relating to Coordinated Use of Hospital Facilities. This program distributed about $3 million in the form of seed and demonstration grants. The first Hill-Burton grant for planning was awarded June, 1961. Current legislation increases the amount of money to $22.5 million, over the next five years. 1 Since 1946 the movement has increased sevenfold. Two states has areawide planning agencies in existence prior to 1946. During the subsequent years this figure has grown to 23, with more states in the formative stages of development. Thirty-five
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